Celebrity icon Cher guest stars in Season 3 of the series as Chercophonie, a rock diva character who is as famous for her off-key tunes as she is for her outrageous fashion sense.

The intergalactic escapades of dynamic duo Tip and Oh reach new heights as these best friends head off on new adventures that push the residents of Earth and Boovsworld to their limits in all-new music-filled episodes of DreamWorks Home Adventures with Tip & Oh.There is no part of the galaxy that is out of reach as the pair find themselves on a mission to save Pig from a far off cat-planet, attending a wild alien prom, on safari on the plains of Boovsland and in a deep sea battle in the depths of Lake Michigan. This all-new third season of Home Adventures Of Tip & Oh premieres Friday August 11th only on Netflix.Picking up where the hit 2015 animated film left off and building upon their enduring friendship, the coming-of-age buddy comedy follows Tip and overenthusiastic Oh as they navigate the crazily combined human and alien culture they live in, finding adventure everywhere they go.The voice cast is led by Rachel Crow as Tip and Mark Whitten (Rolling High) as the voice of Oh, along with Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty), Ron Funches (Get Hard, Undateable), and Matt Jones (Breaking Bad, Mom). The series includes tons of memorable and toe-tapping original music that highlight Rachel Crow’s extraordinary vocal talents.Season 3 features a super-special guest star…the one and only Cher! Check out the featurette below to get a sneak peek at the iconic celebrity as Chercophonie, a rock diva character who is as famous for her off-key tunes as she is for her outrageous fashion sense, along with plenty of insights into her experience voicing the role. You can also see the full-length music video, “Ooga Boo,” featuring Chercophonie, along with another clip, “You Do Boov.”

From Chris: This piece is a homage to a game that I love. It’s also an exercise in expressing character personality within a strict set of constraints. My goal was to keep the design as simple as possible, while still communicating the unique qualities of the various characters. Additionally, I wanted to limit myself to just using the characters’ heads in the portraits. No guns allowed!...Minus the exception of DVa’s suit...and Bastion’s gun is technically apart of his body.

On August 25, Lionsgate will be releasing a fresh European animation catch to US theaters and On Demand: Deep, directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Julio Soto Gúrpide (Radiophobia). The CG family adventure combines a coming-of-age story with ecological themes set in a colorful world beneath the waves.

In the clip below, the little yellow octopus hero of our tale, Deep (voiced by Justin Felbinger) breaks out of his community’s safe zone and discovers some leftover human “treasures.” But, hastily trying to cover up his playing hookie from an important chore has unintended consequences! The Deep voice cast also features Stephen Ezra Hughes (Evo), Lindsey Alena (Alice), Elisabeth Catherine Gray (Maura), Anna Vocino (Norma) and Dwight Schultz (Kraken).

Synopsis: When a playful octopus named Deep gets his undersea fish colony in trouble, the tribe’s stern leader Kraken orders Deep to go find help. Joined by his splashy BFFs—a sassy shrimp and a silly anglerfish—Deep takes an epic, colorful journey through submerged cities and sunken ships, where they meet outrageous creatures that help the trio on its way. Throughout the adventure, Deep and his buddies laugh, sing, and bond with one another, proving that friendship can be a very “deep” subject.

Deep is a production of The Thinklab Media, UFUND, The Kraken Films, Grid Animation and Silver Reel.

New Form, an entertainment studio has released a pilot for Lion’s Blaze @ Studio Joho http://www.studiojoho.com/ — an adult-targeted animated series inspired by videogames from Olan Rogers.

Lion’s Blaze is a 2D animated comedy adventure about a group of four friends that have been trapped in an arcade game for 15 years. Just when they think they have the game figured out, one of the friends gets killed. In order to bring back their friend and get out of the game’s world, the group has to go on an epic quest to collect the remaining five “stones of the Lion’s Blaze.”

Rogers, an actor, producer and popular YouTube creator also leads the voice cast, joined by the talent behind his upcoming TBS original Final Space, which includes Conan O’Brien, Gina Torres, Fred Armisen, Steven Yeun and Ron Perlman.

Rogers’ work would not be out of place on Adult Swim, and his latest pilot is certainly appealing to fans of adult animation. In Final Space, Rogers mixed his madcap sensibilities with sci-fi tropes, but here, many of his jokes stem from video game logic and its numerous inconsistencies. If you enjoyed the last pilot Rogers and New Form made together, you’ll probably dig this one, too. There’s no guarantee The Lion’s Blaze will land its own TV deal, but it can at least stand up as a fun and amusing addition to its creator’s digital library.

James Cameron is not someone who does things by halves. The man who rebuilt the Titanic is currently hard at work on four sequels toAvatar, the first of which won't land until 2020. However, there are a few things about the upcoming sequels that fans will find familiar, not least of all the principal villain. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

It's long been confirmed that Stephen Lang's Colonel Quartich would return (despite taking a pair of four-foot arrows in the chest), but talking to Empire in our September issue, Cameron reveals that Quaritch won't be relegated to a supporting role or appear solely in flashbacks. Rather, he will continue to menace Jake, Neytiri and the other Na'vi throughout all five movies as the saga's main antagonist.

"The interesting conceit of the Avatar sequels is it’s pretty much the same characters," he says. "There are new characters and a lot of new settings and creatures, so I’m taking characters you know and putting them in unfamiliar places and moving them on this greater journey. But it’s not a whole bunch of new characters every time. There’s not a new villain every time, which is interesting. Same guy. Same motherfucker through all four movies. He is so good and he just gets better. I know Stephen Lang is gonna knock this out of the park."

Was Quaritch's body smuggled off-world by the departing Selfridge? Will he return more machine than man? Or, after being skewered deep within the Pandoran forest, might he himself end up transposed into an Avatar body, bringing a blue-skinned, eight-foot Na'vi Quaritch to bear on our heroes? The mind boggles.

Cameron's mammoth undertaking, shooting four sequels back-to-back is not only ambitious, it's a feat of scheduling that Stephen Lang himself described as "a Mongoian clusterfuck". Cameron's inspiration for said clusterfuck? One Peter Jackson.

"I said 'It’s your fault I’m doing this, motherfucker!'" He recalls. "It’s one big story. But I would say a little bit different from The Lord Of The Rings, which you knew was a trilogy and that allowed you to accept a sort of truncated ending for movies one and two and then a fulfilment. This is a greater narrative broken up into four complete stories.

For the complete, in-depth career interview with Cameron, covering everything from Terminator 2 to Aliens, Titanic and The Abyss, pick up the September issue of Empire, on sale from Thursday 10 August.Subscribe here.

I grew up in Marietta, GA and know the big Chicken Landmark well... so, I had to post this.

The Big Chicken, landmark extraordinaire and the pride of Marietta, Georgia, reopened on May 11, 2017. To honor the Big Chicken's return, we made a movie. Now, without further ado, KFC Films presents Big Chicken. Small Movie.

A new animated short, Big Chicken Small Movie, pays homage to Marietta, GA’s beloved 56-foot-tall steel fowl. In the film, a young boy who’s a bit of an outcast finds a friend in the gigantic steel chicken, and they go on an adventure in North Georgia.

For KFC franchisee owner and VP of marketing for KBP Foods Anthony Gianino, the film marks the culmination of an exciting project. The beloved “Big Chicken” KFC restaurant reopened to the public May 11 following a $2.2 million renovation.

“The Big Chicken has been a local pop culture icon since 1963. There was a board game in the 70s and for years the Marietta History Museum’s most popular souvenirs have been Big Chicken shirts, ornaments and even bird houses. On New Year’s Eve, Marietta doesn’t drop a disco ball, they drop a Big Chicken,” said Gianino. “And, now, there’s Big Chicken Small Movie -- a sweet celebration of a Georgia town and a giant steel chicken.”

From the beginning, the intention was to make this film as Atlanta-focused as possible. The creative team from Wieden+Kennedy Portland, KFC’s creative agency, is from the Atlanta-area, and Atlanta-based animation studio Awesome Inc was tapped to bring the short film to life.

“We were so excited when W+K reached out to us about the Big Chicken project,” said Awesome Inc founder/EP Ashley Kohler. “As a native Atlantan, I’ve grown up knowing and loving the giant KFC icon. Having this opportunity to work with a world-class agency on a local symbol, something dear to our hearts, was like winning the lottery. We can’t say enough about how collaborative, kind, and supportive W+K has been, how incredible the people we’ve met from KFC were, or how beautiful the renovation is at the franchise. We hope everyone gets a chance to see it at some point!”

For Awesome Inc, known for its TV and commercial work, Big Chicken Small Movie was the perfect blend of interests and the opportunity to honor the local monument in a charming, design-driven tale of friendship that launched on Sunday, August 6: National Friendship Day.

“I remember the first time I saw the big chicken. I was driving around Marietta doing errands and wham! There it was. I thought it was so amazing that I stopped to take a photo and post to my Instagram,” Awesome’s design director, Craig Sheldon, shared. “It’s been really fun and an honor to work on a short revolving around this iconic piece of Atlanta history. Wieden+Kennedy had a really inspiring vision for the project and it’s been a joy collaborating with them throughout the process.”

Short film as part of a project on the theme "Love", by four students of the training "designer and director of animated films" and "Master of Arts in Character Animation and animated filmmaking" of GOBELINS,
they worked for 5 months (January to May). This exercise was designed to teach the Maya 3D pipline.

Short film directed for a project on the theme "Love", by four students of GOBELINS '"Master of Arts in Character animation and animated film" and "Concepteur et réalisateur de films d'animation"
They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.

This film is about a rapacious dad exceeded its brats!
It's the story of an eagle dad, exceeded By His annoying kids!

CG animation short film directed by a team of five students of 4th year. This film deals in a humorous way with the annoyance of a rapacious dad in the face of the incessant chattering of his young. It is characterized by its cartoon rendering and by its fixed and unique framework that reinforces a theatrical staging. He values ​​an enormous work of acting and animation. Presented to the professional jury post graduate in June 2013, this film received the congratulations of the jury.

We often wake up from a dream with a powerful urge to tell those around us about what happened. But our listeners are also liable to feel restless and bored during our narration of the dream. The issue takes us to the heart of the challenges of communication.

This animation was created in collaboration with Alain de Botton and the School of Life

Short film made in the context of a project on the theme "Love", by three students of the training "Conceptor and director of animated films" of GOBELINS,
They worked during 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.

This is the story of an idea, how it appears, how we try to shape it, how it evolves, changes and blossoms into something grand, with a fate of its own.
This film was created for the opening of the annual Google I/O conference in may 2017.

Short film directed for a project on the theme "Love", by three students of GOBELINS '"Master of Arts in Character animation and animated film"
They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.

Cherry, an animated Short film directed for a project on the theme “Love”, by four students of GOBELINS. They worked for 5 months using Maya.

Oh hello lovely machine, emancipating yourself from function... You look adorable, you know? Yes dear, you were built to be autonomous, it said so in the campaign brief.
No rush – getting from A to B was never an exciting idea to begin with, for your kind. Dance yourself clean, pull your metal frame apart and let the sun burn through your circuits. Ride your autobiography, guided by the beauty of your code.
Fresh freedom smells like common place, and "authenticity" like a frivolous illusion of your makers. So your character was designed to be self-organizing: a beautiful homage to the combined effort of all of those minds that built you – considering your appearance being a quite sloppy imitation of life.
Regardless that those who started this are no longer around:
Still looking forward to your feedback.
What do *you* think?

Auto Nom offers an upbeat alternative on unexpected consequences of autonomous mobility. It is the latest work by ZEITGUISED’s new offspin f°am Studio, and part of a series of character animation narratives based on the personality of Autonomous Rolf. Written, directed and designed by f°am Studio, this fictitious self-driving classic german car gets under your hood with its freedom loving behaviour.

An animated musical love story about a young man who lives inside a billboard and is charged with updating the advertisements. When he falls in love with a beautiful lady living across the highway, he has to use the only method he knows to get his message across - advertising.

Production information
Work Name: Love in the Time of Advertising
Language: English
Running time: approx. 8 minutes
Production Country: USA

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